Hire Car Drivers' Responsibilities
Authorised hire car (private hire vehicle) drivers must comply with all relevant requirements of the Passenger Transport Regulation 2007. Some of these requirements are:
Hire car drivers must not:
- Tout or solicit for passengers or for a hiring
- Ply, stand or park the vehicle for hire on any road (all hirings must be pre-booked)
- Move more than 3 metres from the hire car in the Sydney Airport precinct, without reasonable excuse, except when loading or unloading luggage
- Smoke in the hire car at any time
- Eat or drink in the hire car when hired or available for hire
- Move the hire car while any door is open
- Collect more than the amount notified to the hirer prior to the start of the hire
- Falsely advertise that they are authorised hire car drivers
Hire car drivers must:
- Ensure their hire car is clean and tidy
- Be clean, tidy, properly attired and wear enclosed shoes
- Behave with civility and propriety towards intending passengers, passengers, other hire car drivers and authorised officers
- Carry out punctually any hiring accepted
- Allow assistance animals or animals in training in their vehicle
- Give lost property to its owner, your operator or a police station
- Hand over driver licence and driver authority card to authorised officer when requested to do so
- Tell an authorised officer about details of a hiring when requested to do so within the Airport precinct
For further details of your responsibilities refer to the relevant driver authorisation package.
